Hiruzen Sarutobi formed hand seals with both hands, intending to use Fire Release Ninjutsu to finish off the Uchiha Clan and bring a definitive period to tonight's turmoil.
Yashiro Uchiha, Tekka Uchiha, and the others wore expressions filled with utter unwillingness.
They hated!
They hated the village! They hated the Third Hokage! They hated Danzo! They hated Itachi! But...
They hated themselves even more, hating that their own strength wasn't strong enough!
Hating---
That they couldn't drag Konoha down to hell with them!!!
The faces of the other observer ninja clans also surfaced with expressions of unbearable pity, their minds recalling scene after scene of fighting side by side with the Uchiha, while their hearts were simultaneously filled with a feeling of the rabbit dying and the fox grieving.
They desperately wanted to stop the Third Hokage and Danzo, but they understood that regarding the events of tonight, they were powerless.
Right as Hiruzen Sarutobi was about to complete the final hand seal.
When everything was about to end!
And the Uchiha were about to become a thing of the past, everyone's expressions stiffened.
The expression of Danzo Shimura, who stood by Hiruzen Sarutobi's side, shifted, his eyes full of shock: "Killing intent! Whose killing intent is this terrifying?"
At the very same time, everyone's gazes turned toward a single direction.
Behold,
on the balcony of the wooden courtyard, beneath the eaves, stood a person.
An old man with white hair and a hunched, withered figure, leaning on a cane, no one knew when he had appeared there.
Or rather, he had always been there.
This made everyone's hearts shudder involuntarily, filled with alarm and astonishment.
Fighting until now, almost everyone still able to stand was an elite-jounin-level ninja. With their perception, it was impossible for them not to have